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that losing five seats each in hell and i and california through redistricting. republicans nonetheless had minimal losses here. so this is another way that is different from 1996. clinton in 96 won by a wider majority and republicans very held onto a majority in the house. this year obama won by a narrower majority and republicans retained a big, retained a relatively large house majority although not as large as democrats have after 2006 and 2008 elections. so i think john boehner has some basis for saying that if the president has a mandate so do house republicans. the popular vote for the house republicans will probably come out to something like the same 50-48 by which obama beat romney. that hasn't been fully tabulated yet. back about 20 years ago, circa 1990, political scientists and pundits said the republicans have a lock on the presidency and the democrats had a lock on the house and they had all sorts of good reasons why this was so. the democrats picked the lock on the presidency in 1992 and republicans broke the lock on the house in 1994. starting wi
that losing five seats each in hell and i and california through redistricting. republicans nonetheless had minimal losses here. so this is another way that is different from 1996. clinton in 96 won by a wider majority and republicans very held onto a majority in the house. this year obama won by a narrower majority and republicans retained a big, retained a relatively large house majority although not as large as democrats have after 2006 and 2008 elections. so i think john boehner has some...
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there was a race in northern california in the 1st district of california in which the then-vice president of the united states, vice president gore, called me as chairman of the democratic campaign committee and asked that i support a certain candidate who had helped him, whose family had helped him. and i said, mr. vice president, that candidate can't win. that candidate is too liberal for that district, and we went out and recruited mike thompson, a more conservative democrat. he won, and he's still in congress. you have to be proactive. it'll cause you problems if you're campaign chair when you do that, but you have to be willing to take your lumps. and also rahm emanuel did something which i had started when i was campaign chair. i took a lot of grief over it, and rahm took grief over it, but he was right. he went out in certain districts and recruited pro-life, pro-gun democrats. there are some people like that. and we have to be really a broad tent party if we're going to get back in the majority. now, just doing that isn't enough. we're not going to get back in the majority solely
there was a race in northern california in the 1st district of california in which the then-vice president of the united states, vice president gore, called me as chairman of the democratic campaign committee and asked that i support a certain candidate who had helped him, whose family had helped him. and i said, mr. vice president, that candidate can't win. that candidate is too liberal for that district, and we went out and recruited mike thompson, a more conservative democrat. he won, and...
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that may go up to around 58, 48 when the votes from california come in and california last time took five weeks to count its votes. the count them in five hours and brazil i'm not sure why california is so much less technologically advanced but there we are so all these figures are necessarily a little incomplete as they apply to the nation and there's other states with votes still out, too. it appears that obama will get a huge electoral advantage out of this relatively narrow popular vote margin. assuming that he carries florida where he is in the current towns ahead in the miami-dade county people are this year counting votes without the assistance of many republican and democratic lawyers. the electoral vote is 332 to 206. that was a margin in 2004 and only got 286 votes. obama was slightly less. it appears it gets 3:32. i think that there is a certain structural demographic advantage over democrats in the electoral college in this era. the democratic voters tend to be clustered in some big large metropolitan areas, and in particular neighborhoods and they give the democrats and
that may go up to around 58, 48 when the votes from california come in and california last time took five weeks to count its votes. the count them in five hours and brazil i'm not sure why california is so much less technologically advanced but there we are so all these figures are necessarily a little incomplete as they apply to the nation and there's other states with votes still out, too. it appears that obama will get a huge electoral advantage out of this relatively narrow popular vote...
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only 8% of the people in california smoke cigarettes. the only state the smoke cigarettes less is utah and they have a rule against it. so in california, that got voted down, even though it was a tax on the other, which i thought was fairly interesting. on the pledge he gave me three people, corker, mccain and coburn. the republican modern party, none of those are considered leaders on economic issues are corker got reelected promising people mistake you'd never do this. i spent a lot of time with coburn when he was walking into the gain of six negotiations. i talked to them on the phone and have them a letter and said here's two and 90 and walking down an alley with some unsavory people. this will not end well. he said look, first of all he go back with the other two republicans for not doing anything as a tax increase. only revenue increases in gross. that's what we're doing. it was a letter to me, but it was an open letter. editing make it public, he did. remain it clear that he only revenue he would be for. in conversation he kept sa
only 8% of the people in california smoke cigarettes. the only state the smoke cigarettes less is utah and they have a rule against it. so in california, that got voted down, even though it was a tax on the other, which i thought was fairly interesting. on the pledge he gave me three people, corker, mccain and coburn. the republican modern party, none of those are considered leaders on economic issues are corker got reelected promising people mistake you'd never do this. i spent a lot of time...
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sitting to our west as california. they have a 53 member delegation ours is just an 11 member delegation. so you have to fight hard and you have to make sure that our water doesn't go there. also here in yuma, arizona, there are always concerns that there will be allocations within the state and that maricopa county and the urban areas will get water this year. i promise to you and everyone here is to ensure that we make sure that allocation comes here to yuma and elsewhere, and that when there are changes, they are deliberate and with stakeholders involved all the way through. water is the lifeblood of arizona. we have to make sure that it remains. and that we also have allocations that are reflected by populations and also by agriculture and some of the traditional uses in arizona. thank you for the question. >> moderator: you have 90 seconds, doctor richard carmona. carmona: this is a great question to start on. the congressman and i do agree on issues, like water. if someone does stand up and fight for our water su
sitting to our west as california. they have a 53 member delegation ours is just an 11 member delegation. so you have to fight hard and you have to make sure that our water doesn't go there. also here in yuma, arizona, there are always concerns that there will be allocations within the state and that maricopa county and the urban areas will get water this year. i promise to you and everyone here is to ensure that we make sure that allocation comes here to yuma and elsewhere, and that when there...
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and in conjunction with the missile defense sites that we already have in alaska and in california, a site further to the east would provide what's called a multiple shot opportunity or an ability in the opportunity there were more than one missile or one who had to distinguish between decoys or one of the missiles wasn't effective in reaching its target it would give us an effective second chance to shoot down the missile which is always what you want to do in planning these missile defense systems. in fact, this was the actual basis for the so-called third site deployment in poland to improve protection of the united states while at the same time affording protection for our european allies against longer-range ballistic missile threats from the middle east. this is a critical point, mr. president. we're involved in missile defense not just to protect our allies say in europe but also to protect the homeland of the united states of america. but the current administration's plan seems to all be oriented toward protecting allies in europe and not strengthening the protection of the pe
and in conjunction with the missile defense sites that we already have in alaska and in california, a site further to the east would provide what's called a multiple shot opportunity or an ability in the opportunity there were more than one missile or one who had to distinguish between decoys or one of the missiles wasn't effective in reaching its target it would give us an effective second chance to shoot down the missile which is always what you want to do in planning these missile defense...
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and california is other traditions people can build on. but if they can look inside in order to be a valuable process chemists and he needs to be inclusive, deliberative and needs to be empowered. that provides enough of a firmer are people too sad, you know, here's how we can do it in our area. but enough to to have town meetings and apples. we cannot larges and some other process in california piece of people can take the installation and use it wherever they are to the democratic possibility that rises up locally and hopefully in some ways that can have an impact on the national conversation. >> here we go. i am a librarian for the vermont historical society. we are in the fault of vermont history center. we have a photo album created by a vermonter who went down to view and take pictures of vermont troops during the civil war. he presented the supplements u.s. in 1863 after he had returned from his third trip to virginia, taking pictures mostly of vermonters in camp, but also some other scenes that he saw. one of the scenes that often
and california is other traditions people can build on. but if they can look inside in order to be a valuable process chemists and he needs to be inclusive, deliberative and needs to be empowered. that provides enough of a firmer are people too sad, you know, here's how we can do it in our area. but enough to to have town meetings and apples. we cannot larges and some other process in california piece of people can take the installation and use it wherever they are to the democratic possibility...
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what brought him out was bo homian grove in a place in california. i actually worked on another story about the bohemian grove so i know the place well. >> host: a men's club? >> guest: all men, 2,000 men together at a summer camp, and they do it every year as there was a bohemian club in san fransisco hosting this con fab of corporate decision makers, government luminaries, diplomats, very, very important people, probably the equivalent today of, you know, some of the big events that happen in aspen, and out, you know, when you see folks in shirt sleeves rubbing elbows with each other. jackson, actually, was coming out in august of that year, 195 #, to -- 1952, to do that. his professor said, first, he asked jackson, there was a ground breaking of the law school, will you speak? jackson agreed. then the professor surprised rehnquist saying i'm going to arrange for you to meet him. the interesting thing is that rehnquist did meet him, and method with jackson, and jackson just kind of didn't even interview him. rehnquist had a swedish an sees rights m
what brought him out was bo homian grove in a place in california. i actually worked on another story about the bohemian grove so i know the place well. >> host: a men's club? >> guest: all men, 2,000 men together at a summer camp, and they do it every year as there was a bohemian club in san fransisco hosting this con fab of corporate decision makers, government luminaries, diplomats, very, very important people, probably the equivalent today of, you know, some of the big events...
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law in this election will be seen in retrospect as something that's gained in california. an incredibly shortsighted. with long-term consequences. whenever those republican governors and legislators intended, but everybody thought they were doing every single leadership in the country basically interpreted it as not only are you not competing for our votes you don't want us to vote. and living down what that did is going to be hard work because the gop isn't even getting up to have the argument about policy of this point so you have a tremendous identity among white voters the best prediction of how you vote is how often you go to church. all of this is more often republican. the identity politics and al help explain why the system is so frozen with two of the three closest free elections ever happened to be the last two. >> we will go right here. >> george washington school of public health. there was discussion about the role of women prior to the election and what that might do and how that helped to propel president obama and to the reelection and i was wondering if yo
law in this election will be seen in retrospect as something that's gained in california. an incredibly shortsighted. with long-term consequences. whenever those republican governors and legislators intended, but everybody thought they were doing every single leadership in the country basically interpreted it as not only are you not competing for our votes you don't want us to vote. and living down what that did is going to be hard work because the gop isn't even getting up to have the argument...
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and over the last decade, 53 seats in california, five house election cycles, 265 elections in california, only one seat out of the 265 times changed hands. that was when richard lost. now though, today, we've seen, i guess they're still counting and a lot of districts but we seem eight, nine competitive seats with some real interesting stories. tell us about california. >> on both sides of the aisle. by the time we left the office this morning there were 13 votes separating congressman brian bilbray from his challenger in san diego. through about 200 separating congressman dan lundgren, both republicans, from his democratic challenger in sacramento. mary bono mack was behind by about 1500 votes, and jerry mcnerney and lois capps, both democrats, had tough races, too. it has completely changed the landscape of both parties and the outside groups affiliated with them and made a real effort to try and do the best time and resources, getting to know you with consultants and apparatus that you never had to pay attention to before. because there's just no point in going there. again, the one s
and over the last decade, 53 seats in california, five house election cycles, 265 elections in california, only one seat out of the 265 times changed hands. that was when richard lost. now though, today, we've seen, i guess they're still counting and a lot of districts but we seem eight, nine competitive seats with some real interesting stories. tell us about california. >> on both sides of the aisle. by the time we left the office this morning there were 13 votes separating congressman...
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it's made california very efficient. these are the kinds of things, and as i said, portman and shaheen have been working on a compromise on this. these are the kinds of things we can do to make ourselves energy independent. my view, look, katrina -- sorry, sandy gave some impetus to dealing with climate change. and i said in new york we're going to pay for climate change one way or the ore. we can pay for it after each natural disaster. we in new york have had 50 -- sorry, we have had three or four hundred-year disasters -- sorry, i'm phrasing it wrong. we have had in the last three or four year, we have had once in 100-year disasters. with irene, with sandy. and so, you know, i think it will give some impetus to deal with climate change, but even if we can't reach compromise on that, there's lots of things in energy that we can reach compromise on, and that would be on the agenda. and the fourth thing i'd put on the agenda i talked about earlier in reference to your question, dave. maybe we can get some real financial r
it's made california very efficient. these are the kinds of things, and as i said, portman and shaheen have been working on a compromise on this. these are the kinds of things we can do to make ourselves energy independent. my view, look, katrina -- sorry, sandy gave some impetus to dealing with climate change. and i said in new york we're going to pay for climate change one way or the ore. we can pay for it after each natural disaster. we in new york have had 50 -- sorry, we have had three or...
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>> guest: we've just moved, for a couple years, a little california adventure, to mar run county, california, after being in manhattan or brooklyn for 21, 22 years. >> host: why'd you move out there? >> guest: we wanted to try something different. our kids were at a nice age where they were out of diapers, but today didn't yet have girlfriends -- [laughter] and we have three boys. and we have this nice thing where we can kind of live anywhere because we have a lot of flexibility. i don't have to go into a office, my wife -- who used to work at mtv -- isn't working there now. and so -- >> host: may we ask who your wife is? >> guest: my wife is alexa robinson, she was a producer at mtv. she wasn't a vijay. >> host: okay. >> guest: and she -- and so we wanted to try and go on some kind of adventure with the kids to take advantage of the fact that we can live anywhere. and i've always loved northern california, and i have a lot of friends out there. because of all the technology projects that i've been involved with and things that i've written about, you know, it was helpful professionally to b
>> guest: we've just moved, for a couple years, a little california adventure, to mar run county, california, after being in manhattan or brooklyn for 21, 22 years. >> host: why'd you move out there? >> guest: we wanted to try something different. our kids were at a nice age where they were out of diapers, but today didn't yet have girlfriends -- [laughter] and we have three boys. and we have this nice thing where we can kind of live anywhere because we have a lot of...
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organizations, for civil which also features the involvement of the professor from the university of california. working with local communities to rethink and refrain the perception and understanding of, you know, neighborhood security and human security so there are a lot of bottom-up approaches to changing the perception and changing the securities sector and you see some of these efforts happening in addition to the high level policies of that we have been discussing such as the police for egypt. >> thank you, hesham. i don't know if you have anything. okay let's take this final question and then i have one more very last question to pose to the panel before we close. >> good morning. my name is jason come independent researcher and consultant on issues mainly around policing conflict. so, my question is aimed primarily at bob and i will we get a little bit four tunisia. you know, he mentioned his paper and highlighted the problems and the challenges in libya and with a light footprint. not a kosovo or afghanistan or the iraq model where we have thousands of content and hundreds of thousands
organizations, for civil which also features the involvement of the professor from the university of california. working with local communities to rethink and refrain the perception and understanding of, you know, neighborhood security and human security so there are a lot of bottom-up approaches to changing the perception and changing the securities sector and you see some of these efforts happening in addition to the high level policies of that we have been discussing such as the police for...
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in california it got voted down which i thought was fairly interesting. you give me corker, mccain and coburn and the modern republican party neither of those are considered top four leaders on economic issues. corker just got free elective promising people he would never do this. >> he was walking into the gang of six negotiations, and i talked to him on the phone and i sent him a letter and i said here is the history of 82 and walking down an alley with some and some say three people that wouldn't end well. >> it was a letter to me that it was an open letter to the public. wade it clear -- we made it clear in the conversation he kept saying i don't leader. i don't think that these will let us have spending restraint unless you give him a tax increase. he was wrong and everybody else was right. he actually had to walk out of the negotiations because when he sat there with durbin he said i'm not really for tax increases i'm just putting tax increases on the table, and he's giving me all these spending cuts and i haven't agreed to anything. i just talk abo
in california it got voted down which i thought was fairly interesting. you give me corker, mccain and coburn and the modern republican party neither of those are considered top four leaders on economic issues. corker just got free elective promising people he would never do this. >> he was walking into the gang of six negotiations, and i talked to him on the phone and i sent him a letter and i said here is the history of 82 and walking down an alley with some and some say three people...
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eric, you're up next in california, independent. go ahead. >> caller: [phone line [. >> i lost you hopefully you can call back in. waib in ohio, democratic caller. go ahead, wane. >> caller: hello? >> you're on the air. >> caller: i think the metionz -- message should be everyone should work together and try to keep hold the government hostage and [inaudible] small wind power and solar power. i think everybody should are, not this minute everybody should have solar panels on every roof. >> is that why you voted for the democratic ticket on tuesday? >> >> caller: i voted for the democratic ticket because i think democrat are a party of the future, and the republicans are just the party of the past. >> okay. the leader in the senate for the republicans mitch mcconnell had this to say in "usa today." they have not endorsed the failure or excess of the presidents' first term he said. they have simply given him more time finish the job. and the leader for the democrats in the house, house minority leader nancy pelosi had this to say. bar
eric, you're up next in california, independent. go ahead. >> caller: [phone line [. >> i lost you hopefully you can call back in. waib in ohio, democratic caller. go ahead, wane. >> caller: hello? >> you're on the air. >> caller: i think the metionz -- message should be everyone should work together and try to keep hold the government hostage and [inaudible] small wind power and solar power. i think everybody should are, not this minute everybody should have solar...
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a state like california might be fine that has defined a is coming to california shall be raised by hansen student cage size. start out being free range. nancy pelosi impose free range hens from exum re- -- in the captors in the building is remember. that california agenda violates the commerce clause of the constitution that where interstate commerce is regulate exclusively by congress, not the state. and our founding fathers understood but it needs to be stuck. i did put an amendment on the farm bill called the pike and mimic to protect interstate commerce an amendment which prohibits the states from regulating the means of production of our act product but there's a list that exists in the code. so that takes the states like california and arizona and florida out of the business of telling us, and iowa, how we're going to raise hands and produce eggs and how we're going to raise cattle and raise hogs. that's an important piece that as many fight in this campaign to go to have a lot of play in the press but that something was got to hold in the farm bill and that's another reason i want
a state like california might be fine that has defined a is coming to california shall be raised by hansen student cage size. start out being free range. nancy pelosi impose free range hens from exum re- -- in the captors in the building is remember. that california agenda violates the commerce clause of the constitution that where interstate commerce is regulate exclusively by congress, not the state. and our founding fathers understood but it needs to be stuck. i did put an amendment on the...
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insure that we have a larger pipeline, particularly in various parts of the country, but i look at california where we have such immense success. two women senators. we have a freight -- great female delegation out there but we also have folks who have been there for 20 years. many are elected 20 years ago. how long are they going to stay? are we prepared for that? that is our next piece and we will be. >> great. this was sort of a perception in some parts of the country this was a good year for women because a couple of men said a couple of dumb things. dawn, is that true? was this about a couple of men saying a couple of dumb things? >> they did say dumb things, let's be clear but this year of the woman part because i think that goes to it i pick up on your analogy, this year women went viral. the same way the media landscape is fractured. i think you could say this was the year of the woman candidate part two. this was the year of the younger woman. this is the year of the diverse woman. this is the year of women's uteruses. it was a lot of different levels of women got involved in a way t
insure that we have a larger pipeline, particularly in various parts of the country, but i look at california where we have such immense success. two women senators. we have a freight -- great female delegation out there but we also have folks who have been there for 20 years. many are elected 20 years ago. how long are they going to stay? are we prepared for that? that is our next piece and we will be. >> great. this was sort of a perception in some parts of the country this was a good...
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on the board of directors for sutter health, the largest not-for-profit health care organization in california. we've known for a long time that we have to have affordable, quality health care. when joseph asked about the responsibilities, it's all of our responsibilities. under the affordable care act, i think it was the first beginning of what we need to do in order to reform our health care system to make it affordable for all of us. i really like the ability to put my two boys back onto the health care system that we have today until they're 6. i also -- 26. i also like the ability to make sure no one's a slave to their job when it comes to pre-existing conditions. you know, health care is a big deal, but whether it's governor romney becomes president, we're going to have romneycare or we're going to have obamacare, because we need to solve this problem, and we need to solve it immediately. it's a collaborative effort between private, public, state can and local -- state and local government and the federal government. >> moderator: senator hatch? hatch: well, the so-called affordable care
on the board of directors for sutter health, the largest not-for-profit health care organization in california. we've known for a long time that we have to have affordable, quality health care. when joseph asked about the responsibilities, it's all of our responsibilities. under the affordable care act, i think it was the first beginning of what we need to do in order to reform our health care system to make it affordable for all of us. i really like the ability to put my two boys back onto the...
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in fact, if you looked at the only thing that won in 2008, it was the marriage amendment in california. and if you look at why it won, because it was a crossover of hispanics and most especially black pastors that joined the republicans. is so rather than look at hispanics and blacks from the standpoint of what we white people want to look at, why not ask them what they're interested in? why not look at their values and their cultural agenda and their priorities and address that? and that's where there's great common ground, and i simply don't understand why republicans seemingly are afraid of their own shadow when it comes to that. >> [inaudible] briefly touched on. in the first national election, race and gay marriage, there were a couple ballot initiatives that were successful in that regard. is gay marriage accepted in mainstream america, and -- [inaudible] toward the conservative movement? >> this is an issue that is very much under debate. you're right, there were four blue states yesterday that approved gay marriage, most of them by very, very narrow margins that were far less t
in fact, if you looked at the only thing that won in 2008, it was the marriage amendment in california. and if you look at why it won, because it was a crossover of hispanics and most especially black pastors that joined the republicans. is so rather than look at hispanics and blacks from the standpoint of what we white people want to look at, why not ask them what they're interested in? why not look at their values and their cultural agenda and their priorities and address that? and that's...
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politicians who run for reelection and this helps the decision makers who meet once again in july and california. they make the decisions. the politics you see on the media which they own and manipulate and make believe the two parties which are really one party, the donkeys face an elephant face, and i am running to reveal the truth about all of these so we can deal with reality instead of the fake democracy. sanders: it's the economy. we have almost 15% of working people in this country that are either unemployed or underemployed and 50 million people with no health insurance and median family income has gone down by some $4,000 in the last ten years. i am going to work very hard to continue my efforts for the millions of jobs that our country desperately needs by rebuilding our infrastructure and putting a whole lot of people back to work building the roads and the water systems and the bridges. we've got to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, energy efficiency and sustainable energy when you do that you create a lot of jobs and we need to free think our disastrous trade polici
politicians who run for reelection and this helps the decision makers who meet once again in july and california. they make the decisions. the politics you see on the media which they own and manipulate and make believe the two parties which are really one party, the donkeys face an elephant face, and i am running to reveal the truth about all of these so we can deal with reality instead of the fake democracy. sanders: it's the economy. we have almost 15% of working people in this country that...
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the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i would ask that the quorum call be dispensed with, please. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: thank you so much, mr. president. just in the lull here and if there is any legislative business to take place, i will immediately give up the floor, but in this lull i just want to make a point. i am so proud to be in this senate, so proud to be here for a long time now, came here in 1993, there were two women, we went to six women, now we're going to 20 women and i've seen changes and i've seen good things and i've seen rough things. but i have to say one of the things that keeps coming up continually here is folks trying to use these debates on bills to add irrelevant amendments, amendments that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. i think we all agree that defending our nation is our number-one priority, and therefore having a defense authorization bill is very, very important. and i'm sure that we don't agree with every single sentence of this bill, but i
the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i would ask that the quorum call be dispensed with, please. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: thank you so much, mr. president. just in the lull here and if there is any legislative business to take place, i will immediately give up the floor, but in this lull i just want to make a point. i am so proud to be in this senate, so proud to be here for a long time now, came here in 1993, there were two women, we went...